Less spectacular than theatrical violence involving bloodshed, stage murder by poison is nonetheless unsettling because of its secretive nature. Perceived in Renaissance England as dishonorable and unmanly, poison was ...

‘The Grateful Negro’ (1804) is one of Maria Edgeworth’s less well-known children’s stories. Set on a Jamaican plantation, it concerns the differing attitudes of two white plantation owners, Mr Edwards and Mr Jefferies, ...

In this thesis, I analyse Beowulf as a self-reflexive poem on time based on representations of time in the Anglo-Saxon period. The question of time transcends the long-standing issue of the dialectic relationship between ...

In this thesis I explore the extent to which an unconscious response on the part of the reader may contribute to the extraordinary popularity among both children adults of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (1997—2007). ...

The theological modernist movement articulated many of the issues that literary modernism went on to develop, particularly in relation to religion and the individual s place within it. Theological modernism had a profound ...

On the first page of the first Happy Days typescript, Samuel Beckett wrote the self-instruction vaguen it : the obscuring and occasional erasure of contextual markers occurs frequently throughout his body of work. It is ...

This thesis explores the influence of psychology and philosophy of mind on the writing of Louis MacNeice. This challenges current thinking on MacNeice s treatment of selfhood and consciousness, which has previously been ...

This dissertation utilises a hauntological understanding of domestic space in order to examine spectral presences in the fiction of three contemporary women writers, Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, and Anne Enright, focusing ...

This thesis draws on radical philology, which focuses on the analysis of textual sources, to examine the exogenesis of James Joyce's early aesthetics, which is to say its development as a result of inter-textual echoes and ...

This thesis examines the ways in which neoliberalism as a pervasive economic, political, and cultural discourse is represented, recreated, and subverted in contemporary short fiction by Claire Keegan, Nicole Flattery, Lucy ...